Frank Sinatra

2022 - 6 - 14

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Frank Sinatra Once Cut a Window Into a Rented Tent With a Steak ... (Esquire.com)

When asked if he interacted with Frank Sinatra at all in his life, Henry Winkler told a hilarious story about what the singer could get away with, ...

(You can read our own joyride of a Henry Winkler interview here.) Winkler, who plays Gene, an acting coach in the HBO series, got to talking about Sinatra. Apparently, the "New York, New York" singer loved himself some Happy Days, so Winkler met the man a couple times. If you need a story that won't exactly brighten your day, but might just inspire you to be as bold as the crooner himself, Henry Winkler just told an all-timer of a Sinatra story to Vulture. The outlet caught up with Winkler on the occasion of Barry's Season Three finale. Now, if Sinatra ever gets the biopic treatment a la Elvis, can we make sure this moment makes it in the final cut?

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Exploring the feud between Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra (Far Out Magazine)

Marlon Brando engaged in multiple feuds throughout his career, irrespective of the stature of the person on the other end. Ranging from Charlie Chaplin to ...

Years later, Brando managed to anger Sinatra once again by taking the role of the Godfather in Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus even though Sinatra had personally requested the director. Fiore recalled: “Marlon told me, ‘One of the goons told me he was going to offer me a choice. There might be some basis to that claim since one report stated that Brando was initially apprehensive about starring in a musical comedy but Cary Grant persuaded him to take the role in order to put Sinatra in his place.

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Frank Sinatra's Daughter Said Her Parents Worried About ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

She said that things didn't change all that much even after he began selling records. Fame made Sinatra and his wife, Nancy Barbato, worried that someone would ...

“He was on the road all the time with the band. “He wasn’t quite on the map when I was a baby,” she told The Guardian in 2008. She was the majordomo. “Mom was the taskmaster. He was at times very normal and at times when we would go see him perform, you’d realize, ‘Whoa, this is not what every other kid’s dad does.’ I think there was a little bit of awe. Though she grew up with a massively famous father, Nancy Sinatra said that being Frank Sinatra’s daughter didn’t make her childhood very strange.

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